Future Wars: Adventures in Time (PC/DOS) 1990, Delphine/Interplay
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- In the year 1989, a simple window cleaner is working outside of a skyscraper. Intending to play a prank on his angry boss, the unlikely hero discovers a secret passage leading to a time machine along with mysterious alien documents. Operating the device transports the protagonist to the year 1304, where he is given a seemingly ordinary task of rescuing a lady in danger. However, he soon finds out about a much more serious threat of a global alien invasion. The hero has to travel to the remote future of the 44th century and eventually to the even more remote past of the Cretaceous period to foil their plans.
Future Wars is a graphic adventure game, and the first to use Delphine's proprietary Cinematique point-and-click interface. A right click brings up the verb menu. After choosing one of the six commands, the player points the mouse over the desired target and executes the action with a left click. Small objects are depicted by enlarged drawings once they have been discovered; however, many of them are well-hidden and often require precise positioning on the part of the player character to discover. The game has a linear story advancement, and it is possible to die or become irrevocably stuck by failing to locate a crucial item in one of the previous locations.
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Damn it took more than 20 years to see the end of this game!
I had this game way back when! In my 286 with 640k RAM! I also racked up $80 on that month's phone bill from the Interplay's 1-900 help line (Remember those?!) to win the game. My father was... most displeased.
Thanks so much for posting this!
Why do you click through 70% of the dialog boxes so ungodly fast?!
I loved this game, I had it on the Atari 520st
The graphics for back then were something else!
This game was so hard when the internet didnt exist! I never completed it!
There were text guides available on BBS's. I wrote guides for future wars & operation stealth.
I wrote my newspaper for tips.
I got in so much trouble calling the Sierra 900 number when I was a kid. Not for this game, but others from the era(QFG, Space Quest).
@@pan0ptixwhat happened lol
@@fighter604 there used to be a 900 tip line that charged per minute. And I guess I had a lot of questions because I got stuck at a lot of places in those games. Also, code name Iceman.
This was pre-internet. I eventually convinced my dad to get me a hintbook or two.
- What do you think about this game?
- Yes!
I remember playing this game almost 30 years ago! One of the best adventure games of the era, well built, well script, funny but not stupid, and still today maintains all it's qualities. Too bad we never got a sequel.
Apparently it was meant to be the first in a series that never wound up materialising.
Even playing this as a child, I could not but relate the intro theme with Eleanor Rigby... Beatiful indeed.
Jean Baudlot (the composer) sadly passed away in march 2021.
Just bought a copy. The last time I played this was in 1991.
same here, 1991 on amiga 500
Me too, good ol amiga 500.....i loved that game
I still have mine, and it is for PC so I could play it if it weren't' stored on 3.5" disks...
Just starting playing. Stuck in the room with the docs. All i needed to do was to sodding walk into the transporter. Geezzz
One of my favorite adventure games back in the day. Never managed to complete it.
it really has some nice graphics and love for the detail in it, never played it though
I was so close back in 1993, before the floppy got corrupted... Thank you for the closure, and 'Death to Lehuck' i guess?..
This is the first game and one of the few games I finished.
i didnt finish the game... I was 6 years old... now i know the end after...31 years
Awesome! Just awesome! even today! (I was lucky enough to have the Amiga version!)
I loved this game. I played it once but I couldn’t figure out what to do. It took a while for my brother and his friends to figure it out but they got pretty far. They almost beat the game but were stuck on that last stage. It took me over 20 years to finally see the ending thanks to UA-cam. I have to admit the songs on this game are a little dated.
What a cool idea and concept.
This game was funny as hell. Beat it when I was 17.
still want to play this but cant get past the copy protection. edit: got past copy protection but not sure how I can save lol
Which sound version is this? This is not the original Amiga or PC or anything else!?!? :-o
Sounds like a MIDI version. Not the MT-32 it was composed for. I'm going to guess some Roland General MIDI module with an MT-32 emulation patch map.
The original Longest Journey I see
Does anyone have saved games for it ? I played it back in the early 1990s and finished it. However, I didn't keep the saved games 30 years later.
I found it unplayable under Dosbox (mouse pointer problems) so I could not go through it all. The reason I want these saved games is to record the MT-32 version under Dosbox. It sounds pretty close to this CD-ROM version (which I didn't know existed) but a little better to my ears, anyway.
I had this on the Amiga, The PC soundtrack is great though. I guess this is MT32
Wow, in this version of future wars music is cooler than amiga
This is the CD rom version, the game is same, but all musics are cd-rom format.
....i HIGHLY dislike this kind of funky music for a Dephine Software videogame thats for sure !!
Is this MT32 sound???
This is the CD-ROM version of the game which had digitally remastered soundtrack!
I'm trying cd version, on DosBox, and the sound isn't so good, on sounds effects, music seems the same
@@thriftweeds my ears bleed so much , they could not pick up a worse soundtrack for this game.....its incredible
Back to the Future!
Not the start I remember. I remember having to jump over some slug creatures that would always strike me and kill my character.
Different game. That game is either "Out of This World" or "Another World" depending on which version you played.
@@PeeWee1476 It was 'Another world'
My favourite game
My version used to crash at the monastery :(
Eeeesh the interface on this game is every bit as bad as I remembered!!! So clunky
Whaaaaattt?????
Cool!!
Love the chip tune awesome, I mean who doesn’t like panpipes?
Chiptune is an improper term here, since this is version was recorded with real synth gear and mixed in a real studio.
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жаль на русском нет, пройти очень сложно